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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102515
	Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs
	Osberghaus D.; Fugger C.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	74
英文摘要	Public support of climate policies crucially depends on climate change beliefs. Here we analyze the effects of natural disaster experience on the belief in the existence of climate change. The primary data source is a panel survey covering 22,251 observations from 11,194 geo-located households collected in Germany between 2012 and 2015, combined with satellite imagery of a major flood event in 2013. We find that flood experience had a significant positive effect on the beliefs in the existence of climate change for those respondents living close to the flooded area. However, the effect decreases sharply with distance. We further show that this overall effect is driven by those respondents who already believed in climate change before the flood – they saw their belief confirmed by their experience. In contrast, spatial proximity to the flood had no measurable effect on skeptics. These results imply that climate skeptics may not be influenced by the experience of natural disasters at their doorsteps. © 2022
英文关键词	Climate change beliefs; Flooding; Natural disaster
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; flood; natural disaster; satellite imagery; spatiotemporal analysis; Germany
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256639
作者单位	ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, L7, 1, Mannheim, 68161, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Osberghaus D.,Fugger C.. Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs[J],2022,74.
APA	Osberghaus D.,&Fugger C..(2022).Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs.Global Environmental Change,74.
MLA	Osberghaus D.,et al."Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs".Global Environmental Change 74(2022).